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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-25
The Excitement Killed Him.
From the Wilson IN. ca Mirror.

from the wilson IN. C.l Mrf0r.
On Friday afternoon Mr.. Hender-
son Rice, an old and prominent citi-
zen of Nash County, dropped dead in
the store of J. D. and s. @. Wells, in
this place, under very sad, distress
ing and peculiar circumstances. He
had just had difficulty with J. j.
Farmer, of this county, who drew a
pistol on him and threatened to
shoot if ne continued to advance with
the knife which he held In his hand.
Mr.. Rice stopped Immediately, and
Farmer was induced by some parties
to leave the store. In very few min
utes, not exceeding 20, Mr.. Rice walked
up to W. w. Hargrave and said: ST
think it is cowardly in q young man
like that to draw a pistol on an old
man like me, and tell you am mad
about it." And just as the last word
died on his lips he fell dead.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-25

deed, the Coburg family is always well
represented at gatherings that are to
be served with eatables and drink
ables, and particularly drinkables.
Upon the occasion alluded to, during
the progress of The speeches and
songs, '"The Volunteers" was pro.
posed by a gentleman who had
achieved distinction in the volunteer
army. "What is proposed ~ inquired
one OF the old regulars Of the other.
"We are asked to drink TO the volun-
teers, was the response. "Well," re-
Piled the first speaker, "we OF the reg
ular army can drink that. The volun-
teers helped us out good deal,n
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-25
Experimental horticulture.

The "Hatch BILL" passed by the
last congress, provides for the ex-
penditure of from 100000 to $780,
900 annually in agricultural expert
ments. The many things in horticul-
ture needing investigation will de-
mand no small share of this money.
The most pressing need in this line
doubtless is that the experiments so
we'll begun by Budd, Gibbs and 9th
ers in testing foreign fruits, and those
by Gideon, Patton and others in
new crosses of fruits adapted to the
many localities, climate, soils and
wants of the United States, be carried
forward. Both of these lines of work
are far enough developed to illustrate
that much can be done. They will
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-25
FARM AND HOME.
Sad Moments.


My heart is weary of signing
For the days that return no more
And the friends who have left Us III sorrow
For the other and better shore.
And the hopes that persisted in childhood
Like the dew on the morning flower:
When our dreams of the golden sunlight,
Gilde1 our roseate bower.
They bring in the nighttime of sorrow
The moments too tardy to last:
They gather the time-scattered roses,
Linking me to the beautiful past
But the eight is no more in the window"
And the music Of bird now is low,
There is no longer the rose-tinted glamor
Of the beautiful long ago.
But when we shall enter the portals
Of the jasper-Walled Eden, / know
We shall learn why the idols were shattered
That we cherished so fondly below.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-25
The Volunteers Helped.
From q Washington Letter.

A good story is told here upon two
old retired officers Of the regular
army. These two officers were well
advanced in years when the rebellion
began, and although in active service
during the war, were not especially
distinguished. They have been mem
bers of the army colony here for
many years, and before retirement
managed to continue on duty at and
about Washington as members OF
boards and the like. At one OF the
monthly meetings and dinners of the
Royal Legion last winter these two
old "Coburgers" were present. In.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-25
The Meanest Man in Vermont
From the Burlington Free Press.

A drummer who is making his first
trip through this state, and who
came to this city from ST. Adams
yesterday, claims to have found In
that place the meanest man in Yer
mott. He says that he treated a
man with whom hehed got acquainted
at the depot, whereupon his COM
panion showed the drummer San
officers badge and swore that he
would arrest him unless $40 was paid
over. Rather than submit to any
trouble the commercial man says he
paid up. He thinks Vermont the
driest region he has struck yet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-25

WHEN you see woman just about
to step off from a moving horse-car
while she is facing the rear, don't call
out to prevent her. 1t will be month
before the regular circus comes, and
then it will cost you fifty cents to go
Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-25
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charge.

OMAHA Domestic-We want ten
pounds.sugar. five pounds coffee, eight
pounds-Grocer- here, you tell
Mr.. Blinks TIL not cell another cents
worth to him except for cash. "Cash ?
Why, I've got the money to pay for
'em." "You have?" "Dearie me
I've made mistake. He told me to
60 to the other store."- Omaha
World
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-25

The man who doesn't care what
people think of him, mustn't be sur
prised to find that they don't think
anything of him.-Texas Siftings.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-25

POTATOEs are selling in Deadwood.
d. IT,, for ten cents pound.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
THE LATEST.


DR.. WILFRED NELSON, of New ork, who
has returned from Berlin, declares the
malady of the Crown Prince to be cancer
and that his case is hopeless.
UNEMPLOYED worlxmen had demonstra-
ton in London on the 14th and started
small riot which was quickly suppressed.
THE arrest of General Boulanger In
France for being connected with General
Caffarel in the trading in decorations scan
dial caused much excitement, Boulanger'S
friends alleging that it is a Government
conspiracy To get him out of the way.
WILLIAM JONES, member OF the British
Parliament spoke in Chicago the other
evening in favor of a peace convention be-
tween England and the United States.
SUIT has been instituted in the United
States Court at Little Rock, Ark, by the
Bell Telephone Company against the South
ern Company. The petition recites that the
Edison patent, which the plaintiffs own,
has been infringed upon by the defendants
machines and a perpetual injunction is
asked.
Two men were burned to death by fire
at the planning mills at Cygnet, O., recently.
AT Centerville, w. Va, on the 18th, three
men were killed by the explosion of a saw
mill boiler.
A CONFIDENTIAL clerk named Glinka, in
the employ of the Greek firm of Vigilano
& Co, has been arrested in London charged
Win eInOeZZlng SOULFUL.
A WOMAN was suffocated to death in a
fire at Murray & Wilson's dress goods es-
Establishment, PHILADELPHIA, recently.
THE British ship Monarch is reported
lost in the Philippine islands. The captain
and three men were drowned
THE striking New York printers have
been joined by the pressmen of the Trow
Printing Company, the pressmen of J. j,
Little & Co., and the compositors and
pressmen from a number of smaller Of
fees.
A DIABoLICAL attempt to rob the express
on the Galveston, Harrisburg & San An
tonic road was frustrated on the night of
the 14th. One of the robbers threw bomb
against the express door, but as he at
| tempted to pass through the shattered
opening he was shot dead by the mes
senger. The other robbers then fed.
Two masked men boarded the Interna-
| tional q Great Northern passenger tram
| near Spring Station, Harris County, Tex,
on the night OF the 18th The engineer
was covered with a revolver, but the fire.
man succeeded in getting into the rear
car and alarming the trainmen and pas
sengers, seeing which the robbers gave up
the attempt
THE business failures in the seven days
ended October 13 numbered for the United
States 1S2, and for Canada 20, or a total of
902, compared with 212 the previous week,
and 179 for the corresponding week in 1886
| THE Chicago Stock Yards upany has
been incorporated with capital OF s10,-
100000. The company proposes to do
business similar to that now transacted by
the Union Stock Yards and Transit Com
| oany.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAE-

The Duke of Buccleuch, said to be
the richest man in Scotland, has an in
come of a million and a half per an
mum.
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, pre-
fers German music to Italian and ltal-
ian to French. She adores the art OF
Venice, her favorite painter being Car
paccio, and she keeps abreast OF the
latest literature of France, Germany
and England.
Princes Clementine. youngest
daughter of the King and Queen OF the
Belgians, has attained her fifteenth
year, and has consequently taken her
place according to the established eti-
quette of the continent, among the
manageable princesses of Europe.
-Walpole's Duchess of Rutland was
accustomed to say to her niece, when
one of those apocryphal anecdotes or
which the Court of the Georges was so
prolific came to her ears: That's lie,
my dear, but make a note of it; it will
do for news in the country. "-Phtt0det-
f'ltiG Press.
Richard L. Chadwick, of South
Lyme, is the oldest postmaster in Con-
necticut. He has been postmaster of
that place for forty-eight consecutive
years. His first appointment was from
President Van Buren,, back in the Mid
die Ages. In those days postage was
twenty-five cents.
Long John Wentworth, of Chicago,
says 1.-THE summers nowadays are moth
ing. On June %, 1912" he continues.
l was living on the Cooley farm, near
where Kinsley's restaurant now stands.
1t was so hot that we had to hang the
thermometer in the well and keep fam
ming it to prevent it from bursting"
Young Napoleon Ives had four
hats, four pairs of boots and five full
suits, with an extra pair of trousers for
each, from June Is to August II, be-
sides two hundred and eighty-four dol
lars worth of scarfs, neckties, silk
underwear, etc. His other personal
expenses were on a similar heroic
plan.
AT one of Lady Burdett-Coutts'
garden parties recently a gentleman
speaking of Christine Nilsson called
her "the Swedish nightingale" I'm
mediately thin old woman jumped
up in rage, and, pointing her finger
at him, exclaimed, Your are wrong,
sir; you are grossly wrong; L am the
Swedish nightingale; L am Jenny
Lindi"
One of the largest collection of
postage stamps ever made in this coun-
try was sold to a San Francisco dealer
by r. G.. Morris. who is employed in
the distributing department of the post
office. The collection filed nine vol
umes, and included seven thousand for
eign and domestic stamps. One of thu
rare features of the collection is the en-
tire series of stamped envelopes issueo
by the Government.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

Some people always shut their eyes
to think. Seems to hurt and make 'em
feel dizzy like to revolve an idea in
their mind.-DuL1tth Photographer.
And what makes you think I'm a
slow reader?' asked Merritt. "Be-
cause" replied Miss Snyder, II lent
you book more than a year ago and
you don't seem to have finished it yet
Judge.
With a new hanson cab line run
ding up our hills for the ethical, and
the price of potatoes going up for the
physical, corner lots, like ii partnership
business, will be held firm. "-DutIth
ParGgrapher.
us there any absolute rest or idle
ness in this world?'' asks magazine
writer. Has our inquiring friend ever
happened to have any experience in an
office where they employ three Office
boys?- jSOmerUtLte Journal.
The novel writer's are fond of quot
ing the determination of their heroine
to sell her life as dearly as possible.
They probably would have us to under
stand that she intends to marry an old
man for his mOney.-BOstOn Transcript.
Cardinal Newman says a gentle
man is one who never infiicts pain.
Then it is useless for a man who sells
boots and shoes to people ever to try
to be gentleman. Some of the boots
he sells are bound to be too small
TEXAS Siftings.
-''And you were robbed, tooP"
asked passenger of the Pullman car
porter after some highwaymen had
cleaned out the train. ''Was robbed.
boss?" replied Sambo, turning almost
white with Indignation. Deed was.
Dey only guv me TO bits apiece. IN
Y. Sun.
AT the Army Hop.-Mr. Den Saude
(civilian)-''Doy you notice how sallow
Mrs. Colonel Shrapnel looks tonight?
She usually has such a brilliant COM
plexion." Lieutenant Gatling-''You
must remember, sir, that the appropri-
alton for powder for garrison use has
been exhausted. PUCK.
Gossip from Frogdom.-
Said Frog papa 10 Frog mamma,
''Where is our little daughterI''
Said Frog mamma to Frog papa,
She's underneath the water"
Then down the anxious father went
And there indeed he found her.
Attacking tadpoles till they kicked
Their tails on all around her.
-Ln1depepde1t.
"A young Chinaman, at school in
this country, being told to write a
composition on 1.-The Burning of
Troy" wrote: 1.-The table of weights
used by foreigners outside of China for
weighing gold and silver, and called
Troy, was burnt by the Greeks, SO that
the Wall street spectators were able to
cheat their customers as much as they
pleased, there being no way by which
they could tell how much gold or sill
yer they were getting" We suppose
the young Chinaman meant to write.
''Inere was no weigh by which," etc
~ Y. Ledger.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
THE SOUTH.

ONE man was killed, three men fatally
injured and twelve seriously by an explo-
sion in the Reinecl1e mine at Dizenville
KY, recently.
POSTMASTER EDGE, of Tampa, Fla, denies
that the disease prevalent there is any
thing but dengue or breakbone fever.
A SYNDICATE of Ohio and Eastern capital
lists has bought Is, 600 acres of coal land In
Breathltt County, Kentucky, and will at
once deve-op the country.
A HEAVY robbery of the safe OF the Pa
cihc express occurred recently somewhere
between Little Rock and Northern Texas
on the Iron Mountain road. The amount
missing is between $50, 900 and 100000. j.
b. Owens, the messenger, is missing
A DISPATCH from Brownsville, Tex, of
the 18th says: The Rio Grande was never
so high as now. The country along the
river is flooded. The streets here are in
undated. Matamoras is partly under wa
ter, and the storm is so severe there that
the steamer Arkansas has been unable to
come in from the bar, where she has been
lying two days.
As Savannah, Ga, the other morning fire
broke out in the cargo of the British steam
ship Hughenden. loading for Liverpool.
The vessel had 1000 bales of cotton on
board.
AT Ponchatoula, La, recently a negro
drowned his wife for refusing to live with
him. Her brother found him in the act and
slew him with a load of buckshot
The last two counties of Tennessee have
sent In their official returns of the election
on the prohibition amendment. September
- The official majority against the amend
ment is 81 693
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
History of a Poem.

A Vienna paper relates that when
Prince Ferdinand first crossed the
frontier of his new country, Bulgar-
ian writer by the name of Nicoloff
greeted him with poem in honor of
the event, which SO pleased the Prince
that he told his adjutant he intended to
confer high Bulgarian order on the
loyal poet. On the following morning.
however, the adjutant told Prince Ferd
inand that Nicoloff was already the pos
SCISSOR of that decoration. whereupon
the Prince asked to be informed on
what occasion Nicoloff had received
the order. Investigation brought to
light the fact that Nicoloff had been
decorated by Prince Alexander, of Bat
tenburg, for celebrating his entry into
Bulgaria by the identical hymn which
greeted the arrival of Prince Ferdinand.
N Y Post.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

SOCIAL circles in Washington are sur
prised by the announcement that Miss
Ethel Sprague, the daughter of Mrs. Kate
Chase Sprauge, and the granddaughter OF
the late Chief Justice Salmon Chase is
preparing for her debut on the theatrical
stage.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that tourists who visit Canada in the sum-
mer and purchase winter clothing will have
TO pay duty on it. The treasury is endeav-
oring to reach more definite regulations as
to what articles tourist may bring into
the country free of duty.
THE Laundrymen's National convention
began in Washington on the 10Th.
The United States Supreme Court met
Tor its October term in Washington on the
10th.
The Internal Revenue Bureau has been
Informed that liquor is smuggied into
Alaska in large quantities and sold to In
dians.
SECRETARY WHITNEY's forthcoming an
nual report will give descriptions of the
five great monitors, the cruisers, the gun
boats and the torpedo boat. The total
amount appropriated for them is ST.
100000.
ARGUMENTS on two Oregon cases of al
legged extortionate freight rates were heard
by the United States Commerce Commits
esion in Washington on the 18th.
IHE United States steamer Adams has
been sent to the Samoan islands to protect
American interests.
THE CivilService Commission has or
dered an investigation concerning the en-
forcement of the Civil-Service law and
rules in the Kansas City post-ofice.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY
HAWKINS has decided that the case of Rev.
e. Walpole Warren, recently called from.
England to the rectorship of the Church of
the Holy Trinity, New York, comes under
the Contract Labor Law, " and that he will
be forced to commence suit against the YES
try and wardens of the church.
THE Treasury Department has under IA
vorable consideration proposition to ex-
tend to depository banks in Boston, PhiIa-
delpbia and other large cities the privilege
recently granted such banks in New York
of holding public funds to the amount of ITO
per cent. of their bond deposit and to IN
crease the maximum amount so held to ST.
600. 600
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

tive big scheme on hand" said
De Johgns to friend. whats
that?'' I'm going to open a stock
exchange in a ninety-nine cent store.
See?" mo, L must confeSs L don t
see the advantage" "My friend"
said De Johgns in a confidential wills
per, eff could bull all the list up to
ninety-nine cents, I'd be a great bene-
factor. and make my pile besides -
Hartford Post.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
GENERAI.

The alliance of Italy, Germany and Aus
tria has been renewed for FIVE years, Italy
reserving the right to maintain absolute
neutrality in the event of a Franco German
war.
The Austrian steamer Hapsburg. recent
~ coihded with, and sank, a Bavarian
steamer on Lake Constance. Many pas
sengers in the cabin were drowned
For the first time since the revolution
OF 1913, religious ceremonies connected
with the festival OF ST. Denis, at Paris.
were suppressed on the 10th.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

Recently the Salvation Army at In
gersoll, Can, introduced a novel and
attractive feature in their usual parade.
1t consisted of ten young ladies az
rayed in white robes, somewhat after
the Oriental style of garments, and
each carried a lamp in her hand.
Five of the lamps were lighted and the
other five were not The object was ia
represent the parable of the ten vir-
gins.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-12-15

The New York World is not well in
formed II II supposes the dependent
pension bill which the Grand Army of
the Republic will ask congress TO pass
this winter originated with the claim
agents or has political motive be-
hind It. The bill has for It's object the
relief OF veterans of the army who are
in distress. Their disability and de-
pendence has been caused or hastened
by hardships and exposure endured for
the sake of the union. and no body of
mon is so we'll informed regarding the
condition OF these veterans as the
Grand Army of the Republic. The
posts of that order are called upon
weekly for assistance by some comrade
or ex-soIdier, who would suffer for the
common necessities OF life IL that or
ganization were not prepared with its
scanty relief fund, to come to their
aid. The country Is full of veterans
of the army which saved the nation
from ACKNOWLEDGMENT, who are as
much entitled to pensions as many
whose names are on the list, but who
have resolutely declined to apply for
them for them in the past because
they were self reliant and sensitive
about having their patriotism ques-
toned, until now, when their disabili
ties have brought them close by the
door or DpRgary, the IaPsc-o ti...s i.as
made proof of their claims-under
the rulings of the pension bureau
about impossible. :. 1t is to meet the
case of these soldiers and not to ell
rich claim agents or put the presi-
dent in n hole" that the Grand Army
has prepared another dependent pen
sion bill. There is real hope, wheth-
er there is real expectation or not,
that the bill will become a law. The
merits of the bill do not turn upon
the amount of money the government
is paying for pensions, so much as
whether those who are to We reached
by the dependent bill have acquired
a just claim upon the government by
their services in opposition to seces-
sion and rebellion. When bill pen
sioning the survivors of the Mexican
war, the majority of whom had since
been in arms against the union. could
become law, giving pensions to men
who are not in need and were not
wounded, it is too much to expect
that the actually dependent and needy
survivors of the union army will be
cared for in their old age by the gov
eminent they rescued from disinember-
rnent. They must be cared for by the
state or the nation, and there is one
very good reason why they should re.
receive national aid-and that is, that
those whom they fought against will be
compelled to pay q share of the ex-
pense. Bay city Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-12-15
South Center Plains Items.

Frank Silsby has returned home
from Ingham county to spend the win
ter in the north woods. He has sold
his pine to A. A. Griffin, and has com
meneed operations preparatory TO
banking the longs on the Au Sable riv-
er at Roscommon.
Metcalf Bros. have taken a job of
cutting a tract of pine on Sec. q known
as the Culver pine. They will cut
about 300, OOC feet.
G. w. Wilcox, formerly of Cheney,
has removed the machinery from the
old mill at that place.
Five young lads from Dist. No. G, are
attending school at Roscommon this
winter. They are respectively, Willis
and Fred Silsby, Fred Johnson, Wal
ter Billman and Willie Fuller.
The following named articles were
raised on FIVE acres of plains land dur
ing the past summer, III bu. potatoes,
LOG bu. ruta bagas, $50 shocks of corn,
300 cabbage, $50 squash, 300pumpkins
and 100 melons. Who says that Craw.
ford county plains cannot raise any
thing. ARoC.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-12-15
Electric BitterS.

This remedy is becoming SO well
known and so popular as TO need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song of
praise. A purer medicine does not ex-
list and it is guaranteed to do all that is
claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all
diseases of the Liver and Kidneys,
and will remove Pimples. Boils,
Salt Rheum and other affections caus-
ed by impure blood. VIII drive Ma.
laria from the system and prevent as
we'll as cure all Malarial fevers. For
cure of Headache, Constipation and
Indigestion try Electric Bitters-Entire
satisfaction guaranteed. or money re-
funded. Price so cts. and $1.00 per
bottle ct N. Ii. TRAvER's Drug Store.